Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
Netherlands, 1488
MS H.2 fol. 56r

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Initial H decorated with foliate ornament.
In lower margin, woman (queen), crowned and veiled with wimple, holding book with right hand and crown with left hand.
Margins decorated with border of foliate and floreate ornament including viola, some issuing from animal head or mask at upper right.